Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Exempt \Ex*empt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exempted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Exempting}.] [F. exempter. See {Exempt}, a.]
   1. To remove; to set apart. [Obs.] --Holland.

   2. To release or deliver from some liability which others are
      subject to; to except or excuse from he operation of a
      law; to grant immunity to; to free from obligation; to
      release; as, to exempt from military duty, or from jury
      service; to exempt from fear or pain.

            Death So snatched will not exempt us from the pain
            We are by doom to pay.                --Milton.